ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Collaboratory: Languages of Emotion: Translations & Transformations Collaboratory

Date: 10 – 12 June 2014
Venue: The University of Western Australia
Call for Papers due: 15 December 2013. Submit Papers here.
Registration: Register here. Registration is free, though participants, apart from the plenary speakers, will need to organise their own travel funding.

Plenary speakers:

• Professor Anna Wierzbicka (Linguistics Program, ANU).
• Dr. Naama Cohen-Hanegbi (Tel Aviv University).
• Dr. Javier E. Diaz Vera, Department of Modern Philology, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, will lead a plenary workshop on detecting and analysing emotions terminology and images in medieval texts

Granted that the terms for ’emotions’, let alone the definitions of what constitutes an emotion, vary from culture to culture and over time, one of the most difficult and intriguing problems in the history of emotions is how to interpret these variations and draw out their significance for modern analysis.  This collaboratory will address particularly the question of cultural variation and historical evolution of the terminologies of emotion in pre-modern Europe.  What terms were available for expressing or describing emotions, and what did people mean by them?  How were emotions terms translated between different pre-modern European languages, and where were such differences highlighted and explored by pre-modern authors — not just lexicographers, but also perhaps philosophers, diplomats, travel writers, and others)?  How did the use of emotions terms vary between different genres and registers? Consideration might be given to scientific and medical literature, theology, devotional literature, fiction, correspondence, even visual arts. And finally, how do we, as modern researchers, best ‘translate’ these terms for our own understanding and analysis?

We are now calling for paper proposals for this collaboratory.  If you wish to present a paper, please provide a title, abstract, and brief (no more than 1 page) CV by 15 December 2013. Papers (apart from the plenaries) will be 20 minutes long; and any topic dealing with the terminologies and languages of emotions in Europe, 1100-1800, will be welcome!

Reading Conference in Early Modern Studies
The Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading
7-9 July, 2014

Conference Website

The Reading Early Modern Conference continues to establish itself as the place where early modernists meet each July for stimulation, conversation and debate. As in previous years, proposals of individual papers and panels are invited on research in any aspect of early modern studies relating to Britain, Europe and the wider world. This year, the plenary speakers are Randall McLeod (Toronto) and Tony Claydon (Bangor).

We would welcome proposals for individual papers and panels on any aspect of early modern literature, history, art, music and culture. Panels have been proposed on the following themes and further panels or individual papers are also invited on these topics or any other aspect of early modern studies:

• 1714: the death of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuarts; succession in a British and European context.
• Material texts: technologies of paper, pen and print; binding and unbinding books; compilation, collection, anthologising; modern technologies and early modern texts.
• Writers’ career choices: poetry versus plays; theatre history; plague closures; history of printing; debates over authorship.
• Knowledge, method, practice; mechanic arts; guilds and mysteries; tacit knowledge; statecraft and arcana imperii; how-to manuals; thinking about thinking.

Proposals for panels should consist of a minimum of two and a maximum of four papers.

Each panel proposal should contain the names of the session chair, the names and affiliations of the speakers and short abstracts (200 word abstracts) of the papers together with email contacts for all participants. A proposal for an individual paper should consist of a 200 word abstract of the paper with brief details of affiliation and career.

Proposals for either papers or panels should be sent by email to the chair of the Conference Committee, Dr. Rebecca Bullard, by 6 January 2014, r.bullard@reading.ac.uk

We welcome proposals from postgraduates, and the conference hopes to make some money available for postgraduate bursaries. Anyone for whom some financial assistance is a prerequisite for their attendance should mention this when submitting their proposal.

Christopher Marlowe at 450: An Anniversary Special Issue of Early Modern Literary Studies

2014 will be a significant year of early modern literary anniversaries. The 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth is certain to attract a significant degree of popular and scholarly attention, but his is not the only milestone of note; 2014 will also mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare’s exact contemporary, Christopher Marlowe. In order to recognise this occasion, we invite contributions to a special anniversary issue on Marlowe, which will be published in 2014.

We welcome contributions on any aspect of Marlowe studies, but topics to be addressed might include:

• Theoretical approaches to Marlowe based upon recent developments in areas such as gender, race, geography, sexuality, etc.
• The place of Marlowe biography
• Marlowe and editing/textual criticism
• Marlovian afterlives
• Marlowe in performance
• Marlovian genres
• Marlowe’s influence
• Marlowe and early modern repertory
• Marlovian poetics

Abstracts of around 300 words should be submitted to Dr Dan Cadman (d.cadman@shu.ac.uk) or Dr Andrew Duxfield (a.duxfield@shu.ac.uk) by 1 November 2013. We anticipate a deadline of July 2014 for full submissions.

Early Modern Literary Studies (ISSN 1201-2459) is an open-access refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers’ Forum. Reviews evaluate recent work as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. EMLS is committed to gathering and to maintaining links to the most useful and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including archives, electronic texts, discussion groups, and beyond. For further details see: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html

Seduction: The Art of Persuasion in the Medieval World
Illinois Medieval Association Annual Conference
University of Illinois-Chicago
February 21-22, 2014

Conference Website

We encourage proposals that engage with the rhetoric and representation of seduction and persuasion in all aspects of medieval discourse: literature, art, history, and culture. We invite papers from all disciplines. Preference is given to submissions closely related to the conference theme, but abstracts on any aspect of medieval studies are welcome.

Papers investigating the art of seduction and persuasion might touch on these topics, for example:

• Romantic/erotic love
• Sermons and preaching
• Debates of all kinds
• Conversion experiences
• Political persuasion
• Inspiring and carrying out crusades and Crusades
• The writing of history in chronicles, cartularies
• War
• Materiality and the power of objects
• Marginalia
• Transgression
• Conformity

Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, is the keynote speaker.

Proposals for whole sessions as well as individual papers are welcome.

Three-paper sessions are scheduled for 90 minutes, including 20 minutes for each paper and time for discussion.

Individual papers: 250 word abstract.
Panel proposals: Proposal should include a short abstract for each paper (250 words total).

Deadline to submit abstracts: November 15, 2013

Direct questions to IMA2014@uic.edu and visit http://ima2014.publish.uic.edu for more information

Seventh International Conference of the Medieval Chronicle Society
The University of Liverpool
7-10 July, 2014

Conference Website

Keynote speakers include: Professor Pauline Stafford (University of Liverpool), Professor Anne D. Hedeman (University of Kansas), Professor Marcus G. Bull (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Professor Christopher Young and Dr Mark Chinca (University of Cambridge).

The aim of the seventh conference is to follow the broad outline of the previous six conferences, allowing scholars who work on different aspects of the medieval chronicle (historical, literary, art-historical) to meet, announce new findings and projects, present new methodologies, and discuss the prospects for collaborative research.

The main themes of the conference are:

• Chronicle: history or literature?

The chronicle as a historiographical and/or literary genre; genre identification; genre confusion and genre influence; typologies of chronicle; classification; conventions (historiographical, literary or otherwise) and topoi.

• The function of the chronicle

The function of chronicles in society; contexts historical, literary and social; patronage; reception of the text(s); literacy; orality; performance.

• The form of the chronicle

The language(s) of the chronicle; inter-relationships of chronicles in multiple languages; prose and/or verse chronicles; manuscript traditions and dissemination; the arrangement of the text.

• The chronicle and the representation of the past

How chronicles record the past; the relationship with ‘time’; how the reality of the past is encapsulated in the literary form of the chronicle; how chronicles explain the past; motivations given to historical actors; the role of the Divine.

• Art and Text in the chronicle

How art functions in manuscripts of chronicles; do manuscript illuminations illustrate the texts or do they provide a different discourse that amplifies, re-enforces or contradicts the verbal text; origin and production of illuminations; relationships between author(s), scribe(s) and illuminator(s).

Papers in English, French or German are invited on any aspect of Medieval Chronicle. Papers will be allocated to sections to give coherence and contrast; authors should identify the main theme to which their paper relates. Papers read at the conference will be strictly limited to twenty (20) minutes in length. The deadline for abstracts is Saturday 1 February 2014 (maximum length one (1) side A4 paper, including bibliography). Please email your abstract to medchron@liverpool.ac.uk.

The study of Old and Middle English sources is critical for an understanding of medieval language and literature in the British Isles. This joint conference aims to open up and explore new ways for intellectual exchange and collaboration between scholars working in any aspect of medieval English, in London and Japan especially. The theme for the 2014 conference is ‘Texts and Sources’. Papers will be selected for their ability to link various branches of learning that touch upon Old and Middle English studies, including such topics as history, language, literature, philology, to name just a few. The conference will be accompanied by a special exhibit of manuscripts from medieval and early modern times curated with a view to illustrating the central theme of the proceedings.

Conference organizers, Keio University (Tokyo) and the Institute of English Studies (London), invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 250 words directly to ieskeio.conference@gmail.com, not later than 1st December 2013.

Papers on the following topics with special emphasis on Japanese and/or British research will be encouraged, although papers with wider scope will not be excluded: